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FIRST NAT. BANK IN GREENWICH v. NATIONAL AIRLINES, INC.

Nos. 245, 246, Dockets 25915, 25916.

288 F.2d 621 (1961)

FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN GREENWICH as Administrator c.t.a. of the Estate of Frenelia Lillian Putnam, deceased, etc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL AIRLINES, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee. Samuel KESSLER, as Administrator de bonis non of the Estate of Rodma Lewis Osman, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL AIRLINES, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided April 6, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore E. Wolcott, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

John G. Reilly, New York City (Robert F. Ewald, Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and CLARK and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

LUMBARD, Chief Judge.

On February 14, 1953, National Airlines Flight 470, en route from Tampa to New Orleans, met with winds of hurricane velocity and crashed in the Gulf of Mexico near the Alabama shore. None of the 46 on board survived the disaster and among those killed were Frenelia Lillian Putnam whose administrator, acting for the benefit of Mrs. Putnam's daughter, Muriel Putnam Smith, is the appellant in #25915, and Rodma Lewis Osman, whose administrator acting...

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